There are literally dozens of people who keep the International
Costumers’ Guild running, all of whom have my admiration & greatest thanks.
But every year the President is allowed to choose a few who have performed
under great duress or achieved specific superior goals in aid of the ICG.

This year I have four gentlemen that I’d like to recognize
for very specific reasons:

Jeff Morris & John O’Halloran for their
successful migration of the website from its previous host. The transition was
relatively smooth with little interruption of service; those of you who
regularly update sites or even just surf the web know how valuable that is.

In addition, while many of you may not be aware of it, Jeff
has added Gallery & Forum modules to the website this year &
anticipates more innovations in the future. The future of our Archives lies in
these Galleries, still largely untested but it will be an important feature very
soon.

And I can’t thank John enough for everything he’s done for
the website over the years. I just hope he knows how much we appreciate his
efforts.

Byron Connell has always been one of the biggest
supporters of the ICG. Even after leaving the office of President, he continues
to serve in many ways. This year particularly he was instrumental in helping us
to get moving on resolving our IRS issues by researching certain basic
requirements & composing some of our initial proposals.

And when we succeed in these efforts, it will be in no small
part due also to Bruce MacDermott. He contacted the proper offices to
determine our best course of action & gathered the facts for the Board to
evaluate. And he did this knowing that all of his efforts would actually make
more work for him rather than less. But it will certainly be beneficial for the
ICG.